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discussed in biography

…Naturaliter Contento Dissertationis Prodromus (The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno’s Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid). In this work, a milestone in the literature of geology, he laid the foundations of the science of crystallography. He reported that, although quartz crystals differ greatly…

study of geochronology

…Steno published his noted treatise The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno’s Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid, a seminal work that laid the essential framework for the science of geology by showing in very simple fashion that the layered rocks of Tuscany exhibit sequential…